The Derivation Delusion

When that Control Systems exam is tomorrow and you haven't started studying yet? You bet I'm trusting that random YouTube tutorial with questionable physics! 😂 Eigenfrequencies are those special vibration patterns where a system goes absolutely wild in response to the right input - kind of like engineering students frantically absorbing any information the night before an exam! The desperation is so real you'd swear allegiance to a hooded figure in a heartbeat if they promised to explain transfer functions. Engineering education's darkest hour happens at 2AM before deadline day!

The eternal cosmological chicken-and-egg paradox that keeps physicists up at night. If physical laws govern how the universe operates, but those laws couldn't exist without a universe to operate in... we've got ourselves a causality loop that would make Einstein reach for the aspirin. Some theorize laws of physics transcend our universe, existing in some abstract platonic realm. Others suggest they emerged with spacetime itself during the Big Bang. Either way, it's the kind of philosophical conundrum that turns department meetings into existential crises. Next week: "Which requires more energy—explaining this paradox or just accepting we don't know?"

Physics and chemistry textbooks have the shelf life of milk left in a hot car, but math books? Those ancient tomes could survive nuclear winter. While physicists dismiss anything pre-Newton as medieval nonsense and chemists scoff at texts predating electron discovery, mathematicians are over here using theorems from 300 BCE like they were published yesterday. Pythagoras would walk into a modern classroom and be like, "Yep, that's my triangle thing. Still works!" Math isn't less evolved—it's just built different. It's the cockroach of academic disciplines: unchanging, indestructible, and guaranteed to outlive us all.

When your electromagnetic theory exam turns into an impromptu meditation retreat. That moment of zen panic when you can't remember if θ ranges from 0 to π or 0 to 2π in spherical coordinates, so you just close your eyes and try to become one with the universe. The professor probably meant for us to reach electromagnetic enlightenment all along. Spherical coordinate nirvana is just one correct integration limit away.

Turns out the cat wasn't both alive AND dead—just seriously annoyed! In Schrödinger's famous thought experiment, a cat in a box exists in a quantum superposition of states until observed. But clearly, once you peek inside, the wave function collapses into one grumpy feline who's absolutely done with quantum physics experiments. That face says "I was perfectly fine existing in multiple states until you ruined it with your observation!" Quantum mechanics: where cats judge you for collapsing their infinite possibilities into one irritated reality.

This is peak science flirting evolution! The brain gets progressively more enlightened with each pickup line: Basic brain: "u look hot" 🥱 Upgraded brain: "u 👀 🔥" (emoji game, still basic) Galaxy brain: "Your atoms seem to have a lot of kinetic energy" 💯 That last one is pure genius because in kinetic molecular theory, temperature is literally just a measure of how fast atoms are moving! So saying someone's atoms have high kinetic energy is the scientifically accurate way to call them hot! Next time skip the boring compliments and impress your crush with some thermodynamic sweet talk!